Shows Potential
I know this still doesn't look exactly awe-inspiring. But I assure you it should be cool when it gets a bit more done. It will be all swooshes and diagonals and angles. If things go according to plan (always a big if) it should be reversible. And it might just give me an excuse to indulge my burgeoning button obsession. Of course that won't happen if I don't find some time to actually sit down and make more stitches.
Testing
The lovely gray ribbed socks I posted about a little while ago (scroll down, the pic should still be on this page) are now up for testing. If you want to make your own, swing by the testing group and volunteer.
Sock Club
You guys have heard me say all sorts of nice things about Suzan at Barking Dog Yarns. I used her yarn for Peregrinate and Foliate, and I absolutely love it. I've also used it for two of the projects for Book the Second. So when Suzan told me she was doing a sock club, I was thrilled at the chance to be part of it. And we've come up with something kind of neat. We'll be using the club shipment to preview the the sock pattern from Book the Second that uses Suzan's yarn. If you're part of the club, [...]
You Know You’re A Knitter When…
We seem to go to two different sorts of shows. There's the buy your ticket ahead of time, get an assigned seat, wear grownup clothes, sit quietly, watch attentively, applaud politely sort. Like the Tuvan throat singing concert. Very grown up. Then there's the the buy your ticket at the door, stand around for an hour drinking beer before the show, wear your jeans, hop up and down and sing along sort. Both are totally valid and plenty of fun. It is generally easier to knit at the first sort (you are sitting down and the chances that someone will [...]
Awkward
So apparently there is a knitting version of awkward adolescence. I tried to put this hat on Alphonse and show it to you that way. It just looked goofy. But I'm pretty sure it's going to look nifty once it grows up and gets a little bit taller. You'll just have to take my word for it now though. We'll pretend this is the dorky sixth grade picture of the knitting world. With any luck at all, I'll be able to show you something much cuter in a few days.
Baaaaah
I like Heifer International. They do good things. Every now and then, I give them money. As a result, I seem to be on their mailing list. The other day, I got a nice fat envelope from them. Inside was a stack of holiday cards. Really cute holiday cards. Now we've already established that I'm a giant grinch and don't do holidays. But if I were less heartless and dead inside, these would totally be the cards I'd send. I show them to you on the off chance that you're the good, caring, holiday-celebrating type who does send cards. I [...]
Look, Knitting
Just in case you were worried I'd not been knitting, I've got a tiny reminder. I'm awfully pleased with these. They're orderly somehow, almost stately. I'll cast on the second one in a day or two, and might even finish them up this month (an unheard of level of knitting fidelity truth be told). I have a suspicion they'll look even cooler when I've got a pair of them and they're on real live feet.
Cheating
I have a complicated relationship with my furnace. I deeply resent turning it on every year. It's not even that it's all that expensive. It's just I feel that I should be tougher than that. I shouldn't walk around whining that my fingers are frozen stiff when it's 55 in here. That's a perfectly lovely temperature and I should enjoy it. But I find if I'm sitting still and reading or writing, I really can't abide 55, even if I'm bundled up in all sorts of woolly layers. And the next few days are going to see a lot of [...]
Shameless Abuse of Power
I think I may have made an error in judgement. Not the kind that gets you arrested or even sued. But the kind that leaves you swearing at yourself and at your knitting. You see, I started a hat. That wasn't the error. The error was not checking to see if the single 150 yard ball of yarn I had was enough. I just sort of thought, 150 yards is plenty for a hat, I'll be fine. Not so much. So, now for the shameless abuse of power part. Does anybody out there have a skein (or a partial skein) [...]
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